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Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
5 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
5 days ago in Instana / Access Control Submitted

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
11 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Cross platform disaster recovery support

Currently there is limitation of cross platform CP4AIOPS backup/restore, based on our email conversation with Neil Boyette (IBM) "In our current release for DR, we support Backup & Restore. When you use OCP then for Backup/Restore you can use ...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Ability to disable fields

Description Introduce a capability that allows administrators to disable custom fields without deleting them. A disabled field would be fully inactive across the platform, preserving historical data while preventing future use through the UI, view...
about 18 hours ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Set default cost basis for Rightsizing Explorer

Now that there is support for both Effective and On-Demand cost bases in Rightsizing Explorer, I would like to be able to the default cost basis on the Default Cost Metrics Preferences page.
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Capability to not limit the charts grouping output to max 50 items

Following up on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000AoBsAQAV/charts-grouping-limiting-the-output-to-max-50-items?language=en_US Currently, when trying to view the nodes from one cluster only (so for sure there will be less than 10k of t...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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